Taylor, Don

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Last updated September 12, 2024
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Don Taylor is a University of Aruba lecturer (part-time) in the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management Studies, Honorary Counsel of Jamaica in Aruba. Mr. Taylor is a Certified Public Accountant CPA with post-graduate degrees from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, De Monfort University, and the City of London University and with almost 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry as Director of Finance throughout the Caribbean including the Dominican Republic, St Maarten, Bonaire, and Jamaica and Aruba.

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    Legal Systems and Economic Development: The Case of Aruba Post-Coronavirus
    (David Publishin, 2020) Taylor, Don
    This paper intends to critically review some of the challenges rooted in Aruba’s civil law legal heritage in stimulating a post-corona economic recovery which should ideally be driven towards economic diversification. It also seeks to contextualize the effect of Aruba’s civil law system on economic growth compared to other Caribbean states with similar size, population, and tourism dependency but with legal systems rooted in the common law. This paper’s methodological approach is meta-analytical and includes a critique of the labor laws as well as the substantive role of the state in driving economic performance that is a normative feature in some civil law states. It posits that Aruba’s economic responsiveness, to the coronavirus should consider legal origins as a factor that limits its capacity and capability to execute an effective restructuring of tired economic paradigms and introduce new economic models that would challenge its mono-economic status.
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    Tourism and Development in the Senian Context: Does It Help or Hurt SIDS? The Case of Aruba
    (Science Direct, 2018) Taylor, Don
    Tourism is the lifeblood of many small island independent states and those that are categorized as small non-independent jurisdictions (SNIJs) such as Aruba. The question that this paper proposes to address is whether and how tourism helps or hinders island development. Research has been conducted on the economic effects of tourism in a global context; however, our approach is to look at its effect in one destination, Aruba, and to contextualize this research by situating it among other Caribbean islands. The rationale is that tourism is of more significance to the Caribbean in terms of economic dependence and tourism intensity. Because of the density of tourism in Aruba and its mono-economical development paradigm this makes for an ideal case study.1 Our methodology is based on an ontological review of the relationship between tourism and economic development utilizing a contextualized definition of development that fits within the philosophical position of Amartya Sen. In that context defined not just in terms of GDP growth but the enhanced social welfare of its citizens also in the Senian sense as distance from unfreedom. The concept of unfreedom for purposes of this paper is based on the extent to which there is an inertia to shift paradigms even if the existing paradigm enhances vulnerability, fragility and restricts opportunities to its citizenry. Therefore, despite its impact on the economy in terms of foreign exchange, investments, and employment, there are considerable and pervasive externalities which should be considered in conceptualizing the totality of tourism’s effect on economic and social development. In this essay, we consider Sen’s (2000) definition of development as freedom and situate it in that context and introduce the work of envelopment theory as conceptualized by Sankatsing (2016).